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Subject: [APG] Re: APG-D Digest V02 #112
Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 22:37:40 EDT

Betty Darnell wrote:

<< Annie Walker Burns and Lucy Kate Magee published a series of abstracts of
Revolutionary Pensions many years ago. In 1999, Heritage House of
Indianapolis re-published those extracts.

Is it an infringement of the 1999 copyright to post the Burns-Magee
abstracts on a website? >>

On its face, it is a violation of the copyright, of which the publisher gave
notice in publishing the work. If for some reason it is important to you to
post this work on the web without asking permission or offering compensation
to the copyright owner, I recommend that you engage an intellectual property
attorney to look into the validity of the copyright, and if there is some
reason that any or all of the work may not be subject to copyright, to give
you a written opinion to that effect as evidence that you have acted in good
faith as to the legal rights of the compilers, their heirs and the publisher.

However, that still doesn't speak to the ethical problem of reproducing
others' work without their permission. It has happened to me, and quite
frankly I don't like it, whatever the legalities may be--especially in regard
to earlier work that I may since have updated or corrected..

Donn Devine, CG, CGI
Wilmington DE

CG, Certified Genealogist, CGI, and Certified Genealogical Instructor are
service marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under
license by certificants of the board after periodic competency evaluations,
and the board name is registered in the US Patent & Trademark Office.

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